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Example sentences for "unprosperous"

Lexicographically close words:
unprofitably; unprogressive; unpromising; unpronounceable; unpropitious; unprotected; unprovable; unproved; unproven; unprovided
  1. That unprosperous race of men, commonly called men of letters, are pretty much in the situation which lawyers and physicians probably would be in, upon the foregoing supposition.

  2. It was during the unprosperous reigns of the princes of the house of Suabia, that the greater part of the free towns of Germany received the first grants of their privileges, and that the famous Hanseatic league first became formidable.

  3. The Bristol people are rather in a bad state just now for our purposes, for trade here is in a very unprosperous condition; and the recent failure of many of their great mercantile houses does no good to our theatrical ones.

  4. He thought all this rather unprosperous for a beginning of a free life, but he cared astonishingly little.

  5. The pride of no person in a flourishing condition is more justly to be dreaded than that of him who is mean and cringing under a doubtful and unprosperous fortune.

  6. He it was who had let her know when Haytersbank Farm had been to let; esteeming it a likely piece of land for his uncle to settle down upon, after a somewhat unprosperous career of horse-dealing.

  7. The bus which bore them was crowded with hot, unprosperous people, and Anthony, intimate to Gloria, felt a storm brewing.

  8. Her father had kept a small, unprosperous corner store, and she had graduated from high school in the lowest fourth of her class two days before he died.

  9. It was his unprosperous generalship, of which he never thought without vexation.

  10. It was not an unprosperous one before that time, as we have seen; at least there were great prizes in the profession which had made Addison a minister, and Prior an ambassador, and Steele a commissioner, and Swift all but a bishop.

  11. Ten times to one ’tis the unprosperous man that is angry, not the other who is in fault.

  12. Hitherto an exceedingly warm winter, such as has seldom been known, and portending an unprosperous spring as to the fruits of the earth; our climate requires more cold and winterly weather.


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    Other words:
    depressed; dire; distressed; embarrassed; fatal; fortune; hapless; impeccable; impecunious; inauspicious; luckless; narrow; needy; ominous; pinched; poor; reduced; sad; short; squeezed; straitened; strapped; unblessed; unfortunate; unhappy; unlucky; unprosperous